Judge allows WNY recall effort time to fix forms

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

By KARINA L. ARRUE

JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Dr. Felix E. Roque and the "Together We Can"
committees showed up yesterday in Hudson County Superior
Court for what they thought was the final showdown in their
quest to recall West New York Mayor Silverio "Sal"
Vega and the four other commissioners.

But they'll have to reconvene tomorrow for more
proceedings.

After hours of number crunching and hearing from only one
witness, Judge Maurice Gallipoli accepted a request from
town attorney Daniel E. Horgan to continue with Town Clerk
Carmela Riccie's testimony tomorrow.

The recall committees needed to collect 5,256 valid
signatures for each recall election to proceed.

But according to Riccie, the committees came up hundreds
of signatures short of the mark on each set of petitions.
Overall, she said, of the 31,235 petition signatures the
group filed, 14,167 signatures, 45.4 percent, were invalid.

Yesterday, Carlos Diego J. Perez Monasterio, the chief
technology officer for Archilla Transportation in Edison and
a volunteer on Roque's team, took issue with
Riccies's stats.